>From Slashdot:
http://slashdot.org/articles/01/09/19/1731219.shtml
Hacker Tinkering With Yahoo Stories
Lifter writes "A hacker named Adrian Lamo had access for three weeks to
the web-based content control system for Yahoo!'s news section,
according to a story at SecurityFocus. He tinkered with a couple of
stories without anyone noticing, then edited an August Reuters story
about Dmitry Sklyarov, so that it said that Dmitry's program raised "the
haunting specter of inner-city minorities with unrestricted access to
literature, and through literature, hope." He also added a quote by John
Ashcroft,"They shall not overcome. Whoever told them that the truth
shall set them free was obviously and grossly unfamiliar with federal
law." Funny stuff in itself, but the SecurityFocus story explores the
harm that could come from a trusted news site being easily hacked in
these times."
P.S. I've always though that if someone could hack CNN to put their own
video on, they could use it to fool the world... at least for a few
minutes.
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